"Choix de Chansons" par Laborde

[Nancy Birkrem <nbirkrem@mtholyoke.edu>]

We have tom. 2 & 4 of an untitled, engraved book of songs (words and 
music).  Hope someone can help provide imprint information.  Each song is 
accompanied by an engraved illustration.  The engravers are: D. Nee, 
J.M. Moreau, and Masquelier.  The designers are: Le Barbier, Moreau, 
Saint-Quentin and Le Bouteux. We know:

1)  spine title (contemporary binding): Chansons//de la//Borde 

2)  "censor's" comment on last page of each vol.:  "J'ai lu, par ordre de
Monseigneur le Chancelier, un Manuscrit intitule Choix de chansons, et je
n'y ai rien trouve qui m'ait paru devoir en empecher L'impression.  A
Paris ce 22 Juin 1772."  signed: Des Fontaines.

3) frontis. for tome II, seated artist sketching head of woman from
tombstone, signed in lower left corner "Le Bouteux jnv. Delin. Romae
1774";  signed in lower right corner "Nee et Masquelier Sculp. 1774" 

4) frontis. for tome IV is cupid tying back a curtain or cloth swag in
rustic setting, 3 instruments visible in lower right foreground.  Signed
at left: Le Barbier jnv.; signed at right: Nee et Masquelier Sc. 

5) First song in t.2 is Le printems, ou, La voliere; first song t.4 is La
chappelle de Venus. 

6) bound height is 22 cm. 


Closest match we can find is listed in NUC, 1953-57, vol. 27, Music and
phonorecords, p. 474:

Laborde, Jean Benjamin de, 1734-1794.
  [Choix de chansons]
  Choix de chansons, mises en musique.  Ornees d'estampes par J. M. 
Moreau.  Paris, De Lormel, imprimeur, 1773 [i.e. 1774?
  4 v.  ports.  26 cm.

Can anyone confirm identification or provide alternative?  All help 
greatly appreciated.

(My apologies for lack of diacritics)

Nancy Birkrem
Special Collections Librarian
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, Mass.  USA